My mother was admitted to the hospital today with sepsis. We believe it started with a cat bite a few days ago. She's in ICU and will hopefully have a full recovery. She told me she thinks they'll let her out soon. She doesn't realize how sick she really is, but at least she is in good spirits. She's a fighter. She has four different IVs in her, her blood pressure is dangerously low, and she's in renal failure. The nurses seem optimistic though... as her blood pressure is starting to rise.

My mom, 86 entered the hospital with low blood pressure due to dialysis and then they found the bacterial septic infection in her chest. All of the treatments you listed have been done in the past week. Most recently her breathing was shallow and she needed to be intubated. This was necessary so they could do the dialysis as well as repair a problem with her catheter (that works with the dialysis). She is quite the fighter but we (my sister and I) wait to see if she pulls through.

My mom had colon cancer, last stage. The doctor said, when during the surgery he was removing the damaged part of colon, the tissue was falling apart, so damaged it was. The next day after the surgery my mom started having fever, and had it for four weeks until she died. The doctor said he believed she had fever from both - sepsis and the very rapid spread of cancer, since the cancer cells got in the blood.

My husband's sepsis seems to be caused by an UTI. He is a quadriplegic and this is his second bout with this. The early signs were overlooked by me because he had no fever and hadn't been feeling ill, just tired and a decrease in his normal eating habits. Until one morning he woke up confused about where he was and what was going on.

My father died from sepsis, we had no idea he was that sick. It all started with a cold. We still can't figure out how this happened.

I developed sepsis after a urinary tract infection spread to my kidneys because my body wasn't responding to antibiotics. I ended up having a rare bacteria strain that didn't respond to common antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections.

I am 61 years old, I was in the Hospital for 4 months with sepsis shock I got it from buil-up of sludge and gallstones in my bile tube from removal of gallbladder 17 years ago. I went to a small town hospital and they sent me home with pain medications and did not test me for sepsis shock. The next day they sent to another hospital, where they saved my life.

My father got sepsis from a prostate biopsy.

The cause of my sepsis was the extraction of an infected molar.

The doctors could not figure out how I got sepsis. I did have a ruptured cyst in one of my ovaries, had a lot of pain and that's why I went to the hospital. It turned out that my other ovary had multiple cysts. It appears that I already had sepsis when I went to the hospital, so that's why I think that when the cyst in my ovary ruptured, it released something that caused me to get sepsis. Thank God I was able to overcome it!